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By Joseph Motta Julie Ann Jodoin ofSt. Patrick's Church, Somerset, was among 37 young women representing Fall River diocesan parishes presented to Bishop Daniel A. Cronin last Friday at the 34th annual Bishop's Charity Ball.

Her mother, Betty, watched as, escor.ted by her uncle, Julie made her way down a decorated ramp at White's of Westport, for the' second time the site of the event, which benefits diocesan charitable apostolates, especially camps for exceptional and underprivileged children.

"It's a once in a lifetime experience," the proud mother said.

"She's very honored by this."

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Domagala, though, it was, literally, a six times in a lifetime thrill.

Marian Domagala, youngest of six sisters who have been presentees, represented St. Casimir parish. New Bedford.

The Domagala dynasty began in 1974 when daughter Diane was the parish emissary. Each diocesan church is represented at the ball every third year; in 1977, '80, '83, and '86, daughters two through five, Angela, Evelyn, Renee and Michelle, took their turns.

Angela won her spot with the flip of a coin, and Renee's name was picked from a hat.

"My husband and I are very fortunate," Mrs. Domagala said, looking at her daughters, all present to cheer Marian on.

Dad and ofttimes escort Jan Domagala said that when he reached the head of the presentee ramp with Marian and introduced her to Bishop Cronin, the prelate, enjoying his 19th year as the ball's honored guest, had just one question for him.

"Any moreT' he asked.

"No, sir," Domagala answered.

The ramp Marian walked was adorned with gold lame fabric and decorated with white minilij.!;hts.

The 34th ball had an oriental theme. A decorations highlight was a presentation area backdrop, painted by Sister Gertrude Gaud- . ette, OP, which showed an Oriental lady beholding a beautiful mountain scene. Tlie work also

THIS POSTER of an 18-week-old fetus is being distributed by the U.S. Catholic Conference as part of its efforts to highlight the sacredness of life. (NC photo)

Poster spotlights fetaltissiJe horror With NC News Reports Other stories related to abortion and pro-life issues appear throught this issue of The Anchor.

As pro-lifers, includmg many and hands of a serene-looking, from the Fall River diocese, pre- translucent-skinned unborn child, pared for Monday's March for its right thumb in its 'mouth, its Life demonstration in Washing- eyes still closed.

BISHOP CRONIN enjoys some post-:presentation talk with charity ball director M~gr. ton, D.C., the U.S. Catholic ConPrinted on the poster is a pasAnthony M. Gomes, PA, presentee Rose Olinda Mello and her dad/ escort, Marcelino Mello. ference released a striking poster sage from Psalm 139: "Truly you Rose represented Our Lady of Angels parish, Fall River, where Msgr. Gomes is pastor. (Studio of an 18-week-old fetus by award- have formed my inmost being; you winning Swedish science. photo- knit me in my mother's womb. 1 D photo) . grapher Lennart Nilsson. give you thanks that 1 am fear. For many, the poster spotlight- fully, wonderfully made; 'wondered the horror of anew problem ful are your works. " confronting right to life advocates: Ms. Quinn said officials of the the fact that fetuses such as the one bishops' pro-life office have "long For the past several weeks pictured, already unmistakably' a admired" the photo and "sought His Excellency, The Most Rever- lowing letter, sent to him Dec. 29 Catholic Relief Services has been human being, may, when deliber- permission to use it several years by Lawrence A. Pezzullo, Catholic end Daniel A. Cronin, Bishop of working closely with the staff of ately aborted, be used as tissue ago in conjunction with the annual Fall River, has announced' that he Relief Services executive director, the Apostolic Exarchate for Ar- donors in medical research seek- Respect Life program," a national on the occasion of the announcehas forwarded a check for $20,000 menian Catholics of America ing to aid persons with Parkin- effort by the bishops to promote to Catholic Relief Services to aid ment of the additional donation. whose Chancery Office is located son's or Alzheimer's'disease, dia- the sanctity of human life in all its victims of Armenia's recent devashere in New York. Your gener- betes, head injuries, stroke or paral- phases.

On behalf of all of us at tating earthquake. .. osity will help us to assist the ysis.

Catholic Relief Services 1would She said Nilsson's U.S. agents This sum represents additIOnal iike to thank you and the peopeople of Armenia not only The word "abortion" could not refused permission at that time for donations from the faithful of the ple ofthe Fall River Diocese for. today but also in the long days be used with the picture, but USCC the use of that or other Nilsson Diocese of Fall River. Coupled to follow. your generous donation of officials, feeling it speaks for itself, photographs because "the Respect with a gift of$100,000 collected in $100,000 for the earthquake vic1 truly appreciate your own have produced 50,000 copies of Life program deals directly with parishes the weekend of Dec. 17 tims in Armenia. personal initiative and thought- the poster for distribution' through- . the abortion issue" and "they were and 18, the diocesan gift totals fulness for sponsoring this spe- . out the nation.

From your own personal minreluctant to have the photographs $120,000. . istry overseas and from your cial collection. The response of "The simplicity and stark beauty associated with" the abortion con"It is with typical generosity service as a CRS Board member the people of the Fall River of the picture say volumes about troversy. that the people of the Dioce~e of you know the devastation and Diocese is a living sign of their the dignity and sanctity of unborn Nilsson, 66, began his career as Fall River have come to the aid of destruction caused by such a continuing compassion and con- human life," said Gail Quinn, direc- a press photographer but in the those in need," the bishop said. "I calamity. The rebuilding of both cern for others. They have tor of program development of the 1960s turned to scientific photopray that God may reward their the human spirit and physical always been most generous to U.S. bishops' Office of Pro-Life graphy of living things and became kindness." structures will be a long term those most in need and for this Activities.

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Father, daughter in Rescue arrest LOUISVILLE, KY. (NC) - A father and his daughter, both arrested during an anti-abortion "Kentuckiana Rescue," said they offered each other moral support as they joined other protesters in an attempt to block access to a Louisville abortion clinic: Peter Aronhime, 48, a professor of electrical engineering at the Vniversity of Louisville, said that participating in the,rescue with his 18-year-old daughter Anna c~uld influence other parents - particularly fathers - not to pressure their daughters to have abortions.

He hoped that his actions could get some fathers, mothers ~nd boyfriends who advocate abortion to change to a pro-life position.

Aronhime said his decision to participate in the mid-December rescue at Women's Health Services of Louisville was influenced by his daughter's decision to risk arrest there.

"I also feel that the pro-life cause is just and that it needs more support," he said. "My daughter's decision drew me along."

"My daughter has been a support to me in making this decision.

She was the first to decide, and there was no hesitation on her part. She was with the rescuers.

Perhaps there are other 18-yearold boys and girls who will take notice of that," he said.

The Aronhimesjoined two dozen people, including Father Josep.h· K. Hamilton, pastor of St. FranCIS

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ANNA ARONHIME awaits at Holy Angels Academy in Louisville, Ky., before participating in an anti-abortion demonstration at which she and her father were arrested.

Xavier Church in Mount Washington, Ky., at the rescue.

Miss Aronhime, a student at the V niversity of Louisville, was in the third and final group of protesters arrested and carried to vans by police. .

"V ntil his arrest, Dad was beSide me the whole time," she said. "He got arrested before I did. It was the first time for both of us, and I think we were moral support for each other.

"I was real proud and glad that he was there," said Miss Aronhime.

"I don't know that we made a statement that was much different than the other rescuers," she said about the father-daughter combination.

For many people, she said, abortion is accepted without much thought. "Perhaps our arrests and the arrests of others will bring to people's attention that there is a _ serious wrong going on, that it's something that needs to be stopped."

As the Aronhimes and other protesters were being loaded. int~ the police van, the Aronhlmes associated pastor, Dominican Father Joseph J. Jurasko of St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville, gave them his blessing.

"When Father Jurasko blessed us, that made me feel like we were doing something special," Miss Aronhime ~aid.

$4000 to aid persons made homeless by Taunton's recent Bricktowne Apartment fire was donated the city's ,St. Thomas Episcopal. Church. St. Thomas seriior c'hurch warden Richard.

Sch'ultz has said that half .pf the . money is to.·be managed by the Taunton district council of the Society of St; Vincent de ,Paul;'a Catholic charitable organization.

The other '$2,000 hilS' been: iele-·. gated to the American RedCros~.

The late BuZz Perrin'of Dighton, . . a'n athlete wh6~died' '6f- cancer while in his thirties, established a fund at St. Thomas Episc.opal for community service purposes. The money donated for the homeless families is drawn from' the fund's, interest.

Vincentians and the Red Cross provided immediate relief to victims of the Brickto.wne fire and other Taunton holiday season blazes. Roland Ducharme, Vincentian disaster services program chairman, also serves as Greater Taunton Red Cross disaster chairman.

Chilean government demands records, threatens force

SANTIAGO, Chile (NC) - The Chilean government has said police will use force to enter the Santiago archdiocesan human rights office if the medical records of a suspect in an assassination attempt are not turned over by Jan 24.

The Chilean Supreme court has ordered the Vicariate of Solidarity, the human rights agency, to deliver records of a man the government has linked to an attack against Chile's president, Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

But the archiocesan vicar general, Msgr. Cristian Precht Banados, reiterated the church decision to withhold the· files, calling the government actions "intimidation."

"We have always defended Taunton's Our Daily Bread soup human rights, and we have never kitchen also benefits from Perrin supported terrorist acts of any kind," said Msgr. Precht. fund interest. . In November, military court Judge Fernando Torres Silva ordered the records to be given to the government. after an investigation concluded that a man who received attention at the clinic for VATICAN CITY (NC) - A a gunshot wound in 1986 mig~t Soviet magazine has begun pub- have been involved in the assassllishing the New Testament as a nation attempt. The suspect had serial insert, Vatican Radio r~~ been wounded by police during an ported. attempted bakery robbery, but The monthly magazine, ,"The Torres Silva said he believed the: World of Books," recently ran as two assaults were linked. its initial installment the first eight Vicariate lawyers won an appeal r chapters of the Gospel according of the court order, however, and a to St. Matthew, the radio said. higher court admonished Torres The insert can be detached.and Silva for "abuse of authority." late~ bound with the other parts to However, the Supreme court make a complete book of the New upheld the original court decision Testament. and ordered the clinic to hand over' In a preface to the first part of the ·recorc;ls. the series, a. not~d S?viet P9.ilol ?Shortly after the Supreme'court gist, Sergei AveTlntzev, said decision was announced, Auxil-' knowledge ofthe life of Christ was iary. Bishop Sergio Valech Aldu- . essential in order to understand nate. of Santiago, who heads the European culture. ., , vicariate,! said the decision would Averintzev, ,a ' member of the require the vicariate's clinic to vioSoviet Academy of Sciences, also. late professional ethics, which "we said the country's museum visitors will not do for any motive." could not understand many works Bishop Valech said he would go inspired by the Gospel tradition. to any length to keep from turning over the records.

"Here," he said, referring to the vicariate, "I'm in charge of the house, and I take the responsibility. We will not hand over the medical records."

Unity action in Taunton Msgr. Thomas J. Harrington, pastor of St. Joseph's parish, Taunton, has brought to Anchor attention ecumenical action which relates well to the celebration of the 81st annual Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, going on through Jan. 25 at locations including Fall River diocesan churches.

WASHINGTON (NC) - Preparing to mark the anniversary' of legalized abortion nationwide, pro-lifers were heartened by a Jan. 9 Supreme Court decision to consider a Missouri law restricting abortion, but were disappointed with a statement the same day by V.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. .

Dr. Koop, who opposes abortion, sent a letter to President Reagan saying that he would not issue a long-awaited study on the mental and physical health effects of abortion on women because the evidence on any such effects was inconclusive. .

Despite "diligent review" by public and private health 'organizations "the scientific studies do not provide conclusive data about the health effects of abortion on women," said the letter.

In 1'987 Reagan had ordered Koop to prepare a comprehensive medical report.on abortion's effects on women.

David Reardon, a researcher and author of "Aborted Women: Silent No More," said his studies

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of women who have had abortions indicated that serious problems often do not begin for from one to five years after the abortion.

He said most available evidence shows at least 20 percent and as many as 70 to 80 percent of women who have abortions suffer effects such as' guilt, loneliness, alcoholism, drug abuse, sexual dysfunction and suicide tendencies.

Reardon said he hoped Koop would take the lead in d'emanding that additional, long-term research begin' immediately:

"Serious Rebellion" VATICAN CITY (NC) - The continued practice of in vitro fertilizations by some Catholic hospitals is "most serious rebellion" against the teaching authority of the church, a recent Vatican newspaper article warned. The strongly worded article reiterated the church's ban on all forms of in vitro fertilization as stated in the Vatican document, "Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on Dignity of Procreation."

The position of some Catholic hospitals that such procedures for creating human life in the laboratory may be licit in certain cases "doctrinal dissent," the L'Osservatore Romano article said, concluding that Catholics must obey "in judgment and practive" the church's moral teaching.

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Obituaries Sister Theroux The Mass of Christian burial was offered Monday in Dominican Academy Chapel, Fall River, for Sister Gilles M. Theroux, OP, 82, who died Jan. 12.

Born in Fall River, she was the daughter of the late Onesiphore and Maria (Bernier) Theroux. She entered the Dominican Sisters of St. Catherine of Siena in 1927 and thereafter taught in Plattsburg, N. Y., at St. Francis Xavier School, Acushnet, and at St. Anne's and Notre Dame schools and Dominican Academy, all in Fall River.

She held a, bachelor's degree from St. Michael's College, Winooski, Vt., and also studied at Providence College, Providence Teachers' College, Laval University in Quebec and the former Sacred Hearts School 'of Educati'on' i'n Fall River. . , -' . (' " .

Her survivors"ind~ae ~ si~ter, Irene Theroux, and a brother, Albert Theroux, both of Fall River; a nephew, Deacon Bernard G. Theroux of Portsmouth, R.I.; and a grandnephew, Deacon Denis Gilles Theroux, OP, of Washington, D.C.

.Sister -EDtond Sister Concord Emond of the Little' Frl!ncisca.n Sisters of Mary died Jan. 10 in Baie St. Paul, Quebec~'at the age of 91. Funeral ri~es were held iIi: BaieSt. iPaul on Jan. 12.

A native of Fall River, she was the daughter of the late Pierre and Philomene(Levesque) Emond. She served at St. Francis Home, Worcester, until a few years ago, when she was transferred to Canada.

She is survived by a sister, Gloria Raymond of New Bedford, and by nieces and nephews.

Aborted babies dumped in landfill MANCHESTER, N.H. (NC)A special memorial Mass for abortion victims was held recently at the chapel of Manchester's Mount Calvary Cemetery following the revelation that fetal remains, from abortions had been illegally dumped into a landfill in nearby Concord. . The bodies were discovered by landfill workers when one of 30 bags of medical waste from the Concord Obstetrics and Gynecology Professional Association broke open.

Bishop Odore J. Gendron of Manchester expressed "horror" at the "disrespect abortionists have demonstrated" in discarding the bodies in garbage bags in a landfill.

"This callous disregard for the human body is alarming, "the bishop said. "At just two months of age, an unborn child is less than one thumb's length fro'm head to toe, but everything is there. Hands, feet, head, brain - all are in place. " State officials said the obstetric and gynecological clinic had not notified the state of its disposal of medical waste in the landfill, as required by state law, and it was not clear whether the required sterilization procedures for such waste had been followed. The attorney general's office said it was investigaitng the incident but did not know whether any charges would be filed.

Clinic officials said the clinic had been disposing of its medical waste that way for five years and had made unsuccessful efforts earlier to learn from state officials wheth~r it 'Y~s f~guired,to !i.o. !l!1Ything additional. They said the clinic had used a steam treatment for sterilization before dumping.

According to the officials, the clinic performs a small number of , abortions.

Gov. John Sununu, noting that the only state legislation governing disposal of aborted fetuses was that which concerns disposal of medical waste, asked state administration officials to study whether there should be separate laws on the recording and disposal of fetal remains.

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With NC News reports Area historialls have con.tributed UniversiW of America sponsored to "~a~,ers of the Cat~ohc Co~- by the Catholic Daughters of the mUnIty, a landmark bicentennIal Americas. study of U.S. Catholicism. Authorf The Supreme Council of the ized by the National Conference 0 Knights of Columbus gave $135,000, Catholic Bishops, the six-volume set, recently published by the Mac- for the history series. millan Publishing Co., includes Postal Card contributions by James Kenneally Also celebrating a 1989 bicenof Stonehill College, North Easton, tennial is Washington's Georgeand Annabelle Melville, a profestown University. Markingthe occasor emerita at Bridgewater State sion will be a U.S. postal card College in Bridgewater. ,featuring a watercolor painting of Kenneally contributed"A Ques- . the university's Healy Hall. tion 'of Equality" to the volume The card will be formally,issued at Georgetown in Healy Hall cere~ "American Catholic Women." Dr. MelVille, president of the Amerimonies Jan. 23. Postmaster General can Catholic Historical Society, Anthony M. Frank will be the main speaker. wrote a study ofBishop Louis William Dubourg, the ordinary of the Georgetown University Profesthen diocese' of New Orieans from 1815 to 1825, for the volume "Patsor John Morrell created the design terns of Episcopal Leadership." for the new postal card, which salutes historic preservation.

She waspreviously the author: of a book~length,bi·o.grap'hyo~the .b.islj~."

Along with a primarily pastelop. colored image of Healy Hall, the Other volumes in the series are postal card displays the words: "Living Stones: The History and Healy Hall. Georgetown. WashingStructure of Catholic Spiritual Life ton, D.C. Historic Preservation. intheUnitedStates,""PublicCathn ' t' . hedb y I't semis FI 'hR 0wlS mguls olicism," "Immigrants and Their manesque architecture, Healy Hall Church" and "Catholic Intellec- was built with 2 million bricks and tual Life in America: A History of Persons and Movements."

3,000 cubic yards of stone and was A set of the bicentennial history opened in 1881. was presented by Christop'her J. Kauffman, a coordinator'and editor of the series, to Baltimore Archbishop William D. Borders.

CITLUK, Yugoslavia (NC) The presentation preceded the Local communist government Mount Calvary, a Catholic dioce- 1989 bicentennial of the appointofficials have a "master plan" for san cemetery, offered to provide ment of Bishop John Carroll to increasing and accommodating burial for the bodies discovered at the then-new diocese of Baltimore. tourists in the village of Medjuthe landfill and any future ones.

Archbishop Borders chairs the gorje, including construction of an indoor shopping mall where pilThe clinic declined the ·offer. NCCB ad hoc committee on the grims can buy souvenirs. The The bags from the landfill were Bicentennial of the Establishment Yugoslavian village, where six taken toa hospital in Concord for , of the U.S. Hierarchy.

The study was authorized by the young people have claimed seeing incineration; and the clinic said cit the Virgin Mary daily since 1981, would use the hospital's il1Cinera- NCCB as the official bicentennial history of the Catholic Church in is a scene of neatly kept vineyards tor for disposal in the future. the United States. and piles of rotting garbage. The More than 100 people filled the Kauffman, who holds a doctomaster plan calls for new roads, an cemetery chapel for the memorial rate in history and is editor of U.S. Americanized indoor shopping Mass, celebrated on the feast of Catholic Historian, has written mall and instruction for locals in the Holy Innocents. numerous histories and has been the languages and customs of working on the history series for visitors. four years.

The various volumes "represent a post-Vatican II perspective," Fa~her WASHINGTON (NC) - The Kauffman said.

U.S. Supreme Court has so tightRather than focusing exclusively Father Albert M. Landry, OP, ened restrictions on religion that it on church leadership, they reflect 74. brottier of Father Thomas "comes close to erasing all .relig- "an interaction of people and Landry, OP, former pastor of St. ion" from public life, Robert H. leadership," he said.

Anne's parish, Fall River, and Bork told a recent Catholic League now residing at that city's Catholic The books deal "with conflict, for Religious and Civil Rights naMemorial Home, died December as well as consensus, with the weaktional conference in Washington.

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themoorin~ Religion in America 1989 There are many who would have us believe that America is a country where religion has minimal effect on national life.

From the secular viewpoint, one could be 'led to think that religion and its cultural mores are mere archaic hangovers, which is much like the Communist reflection that faith is the opiate of the people. The present government of the Soviet Union has had to arrive at the conclusion that such a philosophical reflect!on has indeed proven itself quite incorrect. Religion, even if it be unofficial and underground, has a strong hold on Russian life. This is but an example of secular despair.

Religion in these United States is alive and well. It might not be expressed as the faith of our fathers, but it has placed deep and penetrating roots into the American soul. Various reli-" gious denominations have been transferred by the social order of the nation. Some church bodies are no more than a reflection of good work without faith. Yet the vast majority of Americans who consider themselves religious do so because of faith concepts.

Those who stand firmly to the left' argue that one can be a believer without ever living a belief in a public way. In fact, there are many in government who would dictate this mentality as public policy. For example, how many politicians, for whatever reason, claim they are privately against abortion, but publicly for it? Others promote the concept that one's faith should never influence the way one conducts public life.

On the other hand, the current swing to the right has its inherent dangers. We do live in a democracy, not in an autocracy. Constitutional safeguards were put in place for a reason, mainly to uphold the right to disagree and to allow individual differences. The rebirth of religious fundamentalism has not had a positive effect on our national life. The righteous who preach a religion of intolerance and emotional instability have " often fallen, victim to their. own divisiveness, as our nation has recently seen by the shallow religion of some television evangelists.

Amid pendulum swings from right to left, religion in America survives and often thrives. In good times it's soft, in bad times I).ard. When everyone is happy, God takes a back seat, but if the going gets tough, God is remembered. In the midst of these swings, it must be kept in mind that the exercise of freedom is to be ourselves. No government or elected official should be allowed to silence the voice of those who live their religious rights and freedoms.

As a people, we face many issues of heart. Few can stand by and not be affected by the plight of the homeless, the despair of the addict and debauchery with innocents, Our time brings us difficulties and problems far beyond the thoughts of our parents. They have arrived surely and sWiftly at our doorstep and so many of us go not know what to do about them. We feel hopelessly inept and turn into our little worlds, isolating ourselves from objective reality. This we should not do.

If we are to be responsible citizens, with care and concern for social issues and ethical integrity, we have no choice but to be decisive and firm in faith.

Lack of conscience and weakness of spirit have unleashed'a terrible plague in the land for which we are paying dearly.

Many things that have been done in the name of religion are horrendous. But a lack of conscience in the area of moral responsibility and ethical impoverishment in our national life is quickly leading us to, the brink of spiritual despair.

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"Why therefore wilt thou sin against innocent blood?" I Kg. 19:5

Ba'bies are lots of work

By Father Kevin J. Harrington' A 29-member senior class at Bishop Feehan High School, Attleboro, recently undertook an interesting experiment in its Christian Family Living course, which is taught by religion department staffers.

Overnight, II boys and 18 girls became "parents," each undertaking a one-week commitment to assume parental responsibility for a 5-pound bag of flour attached to a doll's head.

They could co-parent, dividing the responsibility with a member of the opposite sex in or outside the class or they could choose to be single parents"but they could never leave the "baby" alone. They had to keep a log detailing how they cared for their flour-children and how they felt their opinion of parenting had changed during those seven days.

The boys were subjected to more teasing than the girls, It was interesting to see how univolved students reacted to their classmates.

One playfully slapped a girl's flour-child and found that the "mother" was taking her assignment very seriously. She put a bandage on her baby's head and sent the culprit a hospital bill!

Another-girl chose to be a single parent because she felt none of the Feehan boys would be sufficiently conscientious fathers. Most students, however, shared the burden and became co-parents.

I became aware of the project a lew days before it started because a boy and girl asked if I. would marry them because they were going to have a baby. As the new chaplain at Bishop Feehan I was" not aware that this was the second year for the parenting project, so when I heard their request I wasn't laughing. Boy, was I relieved!

Given the active lifestyle of a typical high school senior the flour-children had a very interesting week. All the new parents agreed that the experience was a "real pain" and they were delighted when it was over. Some of the stories they shared in class showed just how difficult the assignment turned out to be. " Flour-children went to afterschool jobs, to sports practice and games and 'even on dates! However, all the students agreed that if th,ey cheated by neglecting their charges they would only be cheating themselves out of a valuable lesson. If a situation did arise where it was impossible to be with the baby, they were held responsible to find a paid babysitter.

Most of the students felt that the experiment was a success, teaching them that they were unready to assume parental responsibility at this stage of their lives. Many had felt at the outset that because the flour-child couldn't cry and wouldn't need to be fed or changed, the a~signment was not going to ~e very difficult,

Interestingly enough a measure of bonding occurred between the "students and their babies. Several parents became so attached that they wouldn't trust a babysitter with their charge. And one became so protective that she, chose to watch the videotape E. T. rather than ~thers that might have too much sex or violence. Ironically, most of the students were 17, the age up to which parental guidance is suggested in viewi'.1g.

The story I liked best concerned the boy' who brought his baby to his health club to lift weights. I would love to have been the proverbial fly on the waIl! The boys and girls who were coparents had to communicate far more than they had expected. They had to be flexible in sharing their time and accommodating their schedules to their baby. This foretaste of true parenthood reinforced the importance of a give and take relationship between spouses.

Meanwhile the single parents learned how alone they are when tied down by this responsibility of a baby.

Hopefully, the lesson was not what a "real pain" a baby can be but what a "realjoy" parenting can be when shared by a married couple committed to the Christian values inherent in the sacrament of marriage and the sanctity of human life from the moment of natural conception to that of natural death.

nirth of a -schism Nobody seems to know how to pronounce the word but we have another schism on our hands in our Church. After years of studying earlier schisms in catechism classes, we ,are present at the birth of one.

It's been a long time coming, of course, and the Holy Father had little choice. For years, he patiently negotiated with Bishop Marcel Lefebvre but to little avail. For those unfamiliar with the case, Bishop Lefebvre and his followers are convinced that the post-Vatican II church is satanic and heretic, and that they alone preserve the remnants of the True Church.

The sect has been building seminaries and ordaining.priests for a long time but the showdown came when Lefebvre, acting against direct Vatican orders, consecrated four new bishops last July which insures continuance of the sect.

There is no doubt that the Lefebvrites are sincere. They view all changes in the church and liturgy as evil and corruptive. One follower said, "How can s()meone be excommunicated for upholding the faith and traditions of the church?

Is that a mortal sin? It's Rome that is in error."

What eventually happens to them will be the stuff of future religion classes but the situation takes us' back to the immediate post Vatican II years when controversial issues like eating meat on Friday, celebrating English instead of Latin

Masses and refusing to dispense communion to women without hats were raging.

Many readers who do not remember the uproar over these issues may be amused but it was a painful period nonetheless. Changes divided both families and parish flocks.

Pastors who courageously initiated early changes were ostracized by many.

Preparation for and explanations of the changes were frequently inadequate. Many pastors refused . the changes and this further confused the people who were told by one that change was evil and another good.

It was into this emotional period that came Lefebvre.路 Whenever there is significant social.or ecclesiastical change, there is a period of normlessness. Rules become fuzzy. Will Protestants be saved or not? What happened to the deceased who knowingly ate meat on Friday when it was a mortal sin?

Should our hands tOl!ch the host when we were taught our teeth shouldn't?

Whenever rules get fuzzy, there's a longing on the part of some to return to the comfortable past.

When Lefebvre arose with the standard to recapture the past, he appealed to a fearful but devoted minority. Here was a man. they could follow.

Now they must make the painful choice between old church and obedience to the Holy Father. The

Sees a difference The topic of individualism is one that will draw positive nods from a lecturer's audience. People respond to discussions of the "me generation," the "get it now, don't deny yourself' culture, "yuppie living" and "selfishness."

Today, thanks to books like Robert Bellah's "Habits of the Heart," the negative elements of individualism are being identified and attacked. The attacks are wellfounded. For no society has lasted long with people who only care about themselves or who join organizations only for what they can get out of them and not for what they can contribute.

But as often happens when people are in earnest about stamping out a problem, generalizations are made that do an injustice to understanding what the real problem is.

I believe the radical individualism we are experiencing needs to be understood on a much deeper level than it has been to date lest in our opposition to it we deny the value of many undertakings by individuals.

In a brief essay on authority and the individual, a noted philosopher points out that in the past religious and moral innovators as well as prophets, poets and scientists made an immense impact on human life.

Their power came from their ability to become fully absorbed in the task at hand. They were able to give full individual concentration to it.

But as Western soci~ty became more industrialized and regimented, this habit of acting became more difficult to cultivate. It became harder for the individual to act apart from the crowd.

To accomplish anything of worth

people had to be linked to a 'big organization. Advanced scientific research, for example, must be conducted by large, heavily financed teams of people.

But even though most of us can do little to cha'nge the way the present industrial society functions, there are many talented persons who have a strong impulse to separate from the crowd and make exceptional individual contributions.

In such people 'a spirit roams that yearns to be unleashed, to take initiative and to be creative.

With the new awareness ofradical individualism as undesirable, there is a tendency to overlook the essential good in individuality. The result is a flurry of indictments.

For instance, there is finger pointing at youth cut off from others by their headphones and rock music, or at yuppies caught up in themselves, their Porsches and their condominiums or at the selfishness of various groups.

I wonder, however, ifsome who are charged with selfishness are symptomatic' of a desire to revolt against pressures that might reduce people to feeling common and lost in a crowd. Some who overemphasize themselves may be rebelling against having their identity stripped by the impersonalism of a corporation or a large city.

Finally, some who are charged with individualism may really wish to make an exceptional individual contribution to their field or to society.

We need to make an effort to understand where people are coming from and what they may be feeling.

I think there is a difference between individualism and individuality. Individualism is a real

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By DOLORES CURRAN

wrench of excommu,nication pits them against .what they profess.

Obedience to Rome has always been a fundamental premise of orthodoxy.

My heart goes out to these Catholics. They want to remain Catholics but on their own terms, a charge they have levelled against renewalists for.years. To reconcile their disobedience with their orthodoxy, they must proclaim the pope wrong.

It's paradoxical that the last major schism arose over the issue of infallibility and those that separated were also those who could not accept papal rule. But they were on the left, not the right. They said the pope was fallible, and so now do the Lefebvrites, but for a different reason.

Not many of us will be affected by the recent schism but I hope that instead of delighting in the excommunication of the Lefebvrites, we pray (or healing in our church family. Our brothers and sisters must be hurting at their family estrangement. Let's reach out our hands to them in love and prayer. 'Whether they're right or wrong is not the issue. How we share their pain is.

By FATHER EUGENE HEMRICK

problem, casting a shadow over the God-given capacity of human beings to live together and to help each other grow.

~ January 21 1983, Rev. Msgr. Henri A. Hamel, Retired, St. Joseph, New Bedford January 24 1951, Rev. Edward H.Finnegan, SJ, Boston College faculty 1977, Rev. Thomas F. McMorrow, Assistant, Our J.,.ady of Victory, Centerville January 25 1987, Rev. Jack Hickey, OP, Dismas House, Nashville, Tenn.

January 27 1919, Rev. John'T. O'Grady, Assistant, Immaculate Conception, Fall River 1955, Rev. Joseph M. Silvia, Pastor, St. Michael, Fall River 1988, Rev. Thomas E. Lockary, CSC, Stonehill College, North Easton

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Canh'e be a priest?

Fri., Jan. 20, 1989

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By FATHER JOHN

Q. My non-Catholic sister-in- DIETZEN law asks me many questions I can't answer in spite of many years of Catholic education. A recent one: column interesting and thought If a youngman wants to become a you could help. (Indiana) priest but only has one arm or is A. The answer isn't that complipartially blind, why is he rejected cated. Not only Christians and for the priesthood? (Texas) Jews of the Old Testament but A. Canon law stipulates that, every religion of which we are among other requisites, those who aware has used incense in worship receive the sacrament of holy orders rituals. must have the "physical and psy'The sweet smell, the rising smoke, chological .qualities which are even the sound of burning, symappropriate to the order to be bolize the turning of our hearts to received" (1029).

God and the fragrance of our Obviously, certain handicaps prayers rising to him. Offering might render difficult, even imincense is simply another form of possible, some forms of priestly prayer, in action rather than words. ministry. The man may be quite Offered over the body at a funwell-equipped for other forms, eral, incense expresses our respect however. One thinks immediately . for that body as a temple of the of the monastic, perhaps contemHoly Spirit and our praise and plative, life. But opportunities thanks to God for the gift of life. would appear to be numerous.

A free brochure explaining the Anyone possessing a handicap Catholic position on membership and who is interested in the priestin the Masons is available by sendhood should contact an abbot, ing a stamped, self-addressed bishop or other religious superior envelope to Father Dietzen, Holy to seek advice and guidance.

Trinity Church, 704 N. Main St., Q. About five years ago I conBloomington, 111.61701. Questions verted to Catholicism. I love my for this column should be addressed new faith and embrace it fervently. to Father Dietzen at the same I am constantly learning new things address. about it, mostly from your column.

My question concerns annulment, again.

For eight years I have been married to a wonderful Catholic man.

I was previously married to a nonCatholic. My husband also was married to a non-Catholic but not before a priest or deacon.

I understand from your column that I need an annulment but my husband does not. How do I try to get an annulment, and if one is obtained do my husband and I need to be remarried before a priest or deacon? (Massachusetts) A. I'm confused by your statement that you have been married to your present husband for eight years and joined the Catholic Church only five years ago.

Normally the priest would have resolved the problem of your previous marriage before your entry into the Catholic faith, assuming of course that he knew about that Train for careers In marriage. , My first suggestion is that you talk to the priest who gave you instructions, explain the situation and ask him if any process was pursued at the time of your profession of the Catholic faith.

If not, it should be followed up on now. The priest will help you A.C.T. TRAVEL SCHOOL do that. .

Nan hdqtrw,Pompano Bch. FL From your letter I gather that you and your present husband were married in the Catholic Church either eight years ago or at the time you entered the Catholic Church. If that is true, there probably would be no need for new reciting of your marriage vows.

Train to be a Professional That could depend on what 路SECRETARY process was, or now will be, used 路EXECUTIVE SEC. to resolve the question of your previous marriage. 路WORD PROCESSOR Talk to your parish priest and follow his advice.

Q. Recently a non-Catholic friend attended a Catholic funeral Mass. She asked why the priest uses incense around the casket.

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Bishop "Motivator" Cronin welcomed and thanked ballgoers for their support, expressed gratitude to all who labored to make the evening successful and expressed his "personal and heartfelt" thanks to Msgr. Gomes for his hard work.

"You are the hope of the future of the church and of society," he told the presentees. "May your lives express the Gospel message of caring and concern for others."

The bishop told the young women that "our presence here this evening indicates our concern for you and for this worthwhile _ charitable event.

"Please God," he added, "you in turn will carryon this tradition of caring throughout your lives."

Fri., Jan. 20, 1989

Pro-life poster Continued from Page One a pioneer in microphotography. In the 1960s and 70s his photographs of fetal development and of human organs, tissues and cells wen~ frequently featured in LiJe magazine.

Ms. Quinn said that even without mention of abortion USCC officials believe the poster "will have an impact" on people's views on that issue because the photo itself so clearly shows "the humanityof the unborn."

Fetal Tissue Problem Use of fetal tissues in medical research raises a host of ethical questions. .

Catholic and other pro-life leaders say central to the debate is whether it is moral to use cells from aborted human fetuses to treat someone suffering from a severe incurable disease. They say it is not and that allowing it would encourage more abortions.

Proponents argue that at least some good can come out of the 1.5 million elective abortions performed in the United States every year and that it would be morally wrong not to use the tissue to help others.

Why use fetal tissue to treatadults? Because, according to researchers, fetal cells are "immuno_ logically naive." Fetal cells, during the early stages of pregnancy, have not yet developed all the antigens that allow the transplant recipient's immune system to identify and reject them.

Also, fetal nerve cells, unlike adult cells, regenerate.

A University of Miami neurosurgeon, head of the Miami Project to ~ure Paralysis, has .d.escribed fetal cells as "a very exciting glue" to tie together the body's injured or diseased area~ ..

Animal research and limited human research using fetal tissue has brought mixed results.

But Yale University scientists Dec. 8 performed the second U.S. operation to transplant brain tissue from an aborted child into a patient suffering from Parkinson's disease.

The first U.S. operation was in November in Denver.

Similar surgeries were first performed in Mexico and Sweden. In China, fetal-cell implants have been used to treat diabetics.

Awareness of what has been dubbed the "ticking time bomb" of fetal tissue use is growing, and as a result,a special National Institut.es Health panel was convened to diScuss the scientific, legal and ethical questions surrounding it.

A standing NIH committee unanimously accepted the panel's report and recommended the federal government lift a moratorium i.mposed last April on federal funding of the research.

The report, reflecting a ~ajori~y view, apprQved the use of tissue In research but recognized the "moral .relevance" of the tissues being de-rived from -abortions and called for guidelines to keepdecisions on abortion totally independent of decisions on tissue use.

- That final report was to go to Dr. Robert Windom, assistant secretary of the U.S. Depart~ent of Health and Human Services.

Whether a final decision will come before the new Bush administration steps in is unclear.

Abortion was central to the panel's deliberations, with many panel members expressing ambivalence. -

The panel's chairman, former federal Judge Arlin Adams, said in a letter that many of the pal1d members "hold deep reservations about abortion," yet because it is legal and the research holds promise they approved it.

He added that without federal funding research wou!d continue anyway and that if NIH were involved it could set up safeguards.

Earlier said the panel never put a "moral'imprimatur on abortion."

Other panel members attached remarks to an already lengthy report.

Daniel Robinson, chairman of the psychology department at Georgetown University, said a~ a panel member he was charge~ With addressing the issue as pubhc policy and so he voted with the majorty.

But his personal judgment was "abortion is a moral wrong" that "could not be redeemed by any actual or potential 'good' secured by it" and he was firmly opposed to federal funding.

Panel member John Robertson, University of Texas law professor, said in his support for the majority view that "the Catholic Church is not against all use of fetal tissue from induced abortions." He said the Vatican document on procreation issued last March "forbids use of deliberately aborted fetuses only if they are not dead and -the consent of the mother has not been obtained."

The Vatican document also said: bodies of the unborn, whether deliberately aborted or not, inust be as respected as are other human remains; the parents or mothers must give consent for an autopsy; and "the moral requirements must be safeguarded that there be. no complicity in deliberate abortIOn and that the risk of scandal be avoided."

Photos of the charity ball may also be found on pages 7 and 8.

Liturgical composer wins copyrights RESTORAnON artists Roberto Arce (left) and Ramon L. Cortina lift a panel from a mural in the lob?y of the present U.S. Catholic Conference building in Washmgton, preparatory to moving it to the conference's new headquarters. (NC photo) .

A tradition of caring Continued from Page One featured the bishop's coat of arms.

Shrubbery was placed on either side of the presentation area. The ball's over 1000 attendees also enjoyed oriental-style table centerpieces, silk flowers and fans on brass-colored bases.

Kathleen E. Nelson was presentee for New Bedford's Holy Nameparish.

"I thought it would be a good experience," said the l~-year-old, president of her panshyouth group.

Kathleen's mother, Mary, represented the parish in 1965.

The satin gown, featuring pearls and lace, was modified for the ball.

Its train was removed and a bow was added. .

As the presentees, carrymg bouquets of multicolored roses, were preparing to enter White's Grand Ballroom, ballgoers were dancing to the music of Ed Souza and the Aristocrats. StudLo One-Monte Music provided tunes in White's Grand Salon. , Mrs. James A. O'Brien Jr., presentee chairman, had checked the young ladies in.

"I'd like to meet their mothers," she said of Misses Nelson and Trask. "I was around when they were presented. I've been doing this for 30 years."

Mrs. O'Brien said that many of this year's presentees, who range in age from 16 to 22, are very active in their parishes in ministries induding religious education and lectoring.

- The chairman, who said she's always enjoyed her work, ~ot~d that she and other women active 10 ball preparation "are all more or less products of the training of ~h.e late Margaret M. Lahey, an onglnal organizer of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and an ardent supporte'r of the charity event.

"I'm sure she's looking down , from above," Mrs. O'Brien said.

Current DCCW president Dorothy A. Curry and Victor F. Rebello, Jr., New Bedford area Vincentian president, were the bishop's escorts for the evening.

Their organizations are the ball's honorary cosponsors.

WASHINGTON (NC) - The U.S. District Court in Chicago has ordered F.E.L. Publications to reassign more than 50 copyrights to Ray Repp, a composer most noted for liturgical folk songs he wrote in the 1960s.

Repp went to the federal court charging F.E.L. with breach of contract, seeking payment of royalties allegedly owed him and asking for the return of copyrights he assigned to F. E. L. from 1965 to 1969.

Although he continues to write liturgical music, the songs he wrote during the early years of liturgical reform include "the material I am most known for," Repp said in a telephone interview.

The Songs included: "Allelu!," "I Am the Res'urrection," "Peace, My Friends,;"'-Her~ We Are,''''Into Your Hands" and "Hear, a Lord."

F.E.L. is appealing the court's decision that the copyrights be returned and that F.E.L. pay Repp $32,000 in back royalties.

'The publishing company also asked the court to stay an injunction ordering it to discontinue accepting money from parishes for the use of. Repp's songs. The stay was denied in early. December, said Bob Jambor, Repp's attorney.

"It was much different from . now," Ms. Nelson said. "You were not escorted by a male member of A lengthy written dissent from your. family. You went solo in the panel view by Holy Cross' those days. And you didn't wear Father James T. Burtchaell, pro- white. You had to wear a pastel fessor at the University of Notre color.

Dame, and Indiana attorney James "It's kind of a neat feeling," she Bopp Jr., general counsel for the said, "to see your child walk in Dennis Fitzpatrick, president of National Right to Life Commityour footsteps 24 years later."

F.E.L., which now is based in Las tee, provoked strong criticism from The former presentee said she Vegas, Nev., did not return phone anpther panel member. likes the fact that parish represencalls.

Father Burtchaell and Bopp said tatives now have escorts. Kathleen's Repp said his efforts to introscientific promise of research and was herfather, Timothy J. Nelson. duce his new songs into parish use its legality were "beside the point if over the past 10 years have been "a Ann Pen'ta, a 1966 presentee, the procedure is ethically at fault." struggle,"路 'partly because peopl.e saw her daughter, Jennifer Ann associate his name with a laWSUit They said that by trying to separ- Trask, represent St. Pius X parish, F.E.L. brought against the ArchSouth Yarmouth. ate the morality of abortion from diocese of Chicago in 1976. the use of tissue, the panel's posi- _ The 18-year-old was escorted by The publisher claimed that Chition was not unlike that of Nazi her grandfather, Atty. James H. cago parishes were illeg~lly reprodoctors, convicted at Nuremburg Quirk" Sr., husband of Joanne ducing F.E.L. - copynght songs for human experiments, who said Quirk, a very active charity ball , without permission. how their subjects "were delivered worker. ~ into their hands" was no concern Mrs. Penta told The Anchor"My music was probably 95 of theirs. . that her own presentation "was percent" of the songs involved, But another panel member, very exciting. It was the getting Repp said, so "a lot .of people Aaron Muscona, genetics profes-. dressed, it was a fantasyland. My' The ball's (raditional Grand assumed that Ray Repp was pursor at the University of Chicago, whole family was there, all a part 'March, a happy trip around the 'slJing the lawsuit. called the comparison "detached of it. room, was followed by a solo ren- - "The one good thirig" about the from reality" and said it ignored A lot of family was around for dition of the National Anthem by Chicago lawsuit; he said, "was t.hat the root causes of the Holocaust.

Jennifer, too. And she follows in Kenneth Leger of Sacred Heart it raised the consciousness of peomom's footsteps in more ways "The Holocaust was not a medi- than one. "I love to get dressed parish, Fall River, and the intro- ple" about the rights of chur~h duction of Bishop Cronin by the musicians to protect and be paid cal research project to help Par- up," she said. . ball's diocesan director, Msgr. for their work. kinson's patients and rescue infants Repp's attorney said parishes Presentee Anna Braga, from Our Anthony M. Gomes, PA. from fatal diseases," Moscona "This year has been one of the which are paying annual fees to wrote. "It was not scrutinized by Lady of Health parish, Fall River, best!" exclaimed the enthusiastic F.E.L.'s agent - Copyright Sharpeer feview, examine~ by r;rI~ was the first young lady in line.

The Southeastern Massachusetts director, who noted to much ing Corporation - for the use of panels.... 'Medicalexpenments did not involve freely surrendered University freshman, a fashion applause that the charity _event early Repp songs should contact clumps of embryonic cells la~king merchandising student, wore, a now sees gross proceeds of over his current publisher, K and R neural mechanisms for conscIOus- dress worn _by a relative, Liz $100,000. "We have a great moti- Music Publishing in Trumansburg, vator who makes us 'number one!" N.Y., for new permissions. ~abral, at her recent weddin~. ness and pain."

Aborted women seek pardon, counselor, ~ays BURLINGTON, Vt. (NC) - A growing number of women who have had abortions are looking for forgiveness, seeking out counseling centers 01' Catholic priests, said Jan Cummings, a volunteer counselor with Burlington Pregnancy Services.

Talking to someone about their experiences is the beginning of healing for women who regret having had an abortion, Ms. Cummings said. But often it takes time for the woman to open up.

"Many women are willing to come back to continue talking," she said. "A great many of them are seeking forgiveness, and we spend a lot of time talking about this.

"If they know about God, they sometimes don't understand that he is a forgiving God. Or if they say they know he is a forgiving God, they think that he will forgive any sin except this one," Ms. Cummings said in an interview with The Vermont Catholic Tribune, newspaper of the Diocese of Burlipgton.

"We take a lot of time to talk about the fact that God will forgive them," she said. "It's a process. " Debbie Austin, who had an abortion eight years ago, told the newspaper that only within the past year has she been able to talk about the experience.

Mrs. Austin said that although she experienced negative feelings within a few months of the abortion, it wasn't until after she was married and had her first child that she realized the full impact of what she had done.

When hl;r son was born four years ago, "I wheeled him down from the nursery, and 1 was looking at him, at his little ears and toes, and 1 was thinking, 'how could anybody not believe in God' when 1 sawall these little parts.

"Then it hit me, this is what was in me 'back then," she said.

Later, looking at pictures of a developing fetus, she noticed the 10 toes. "I thought, 'this little baby had feet.' And that got me very angry. 1 thought, 'Why didn't they tell me this'" at the abortion clinic before the procedure. "Why didn't they show me this?"

Though Mrs. Austin and her husband later "accepted Jesus Christ" and began rebuilding their lives, "after my baby was born, 1 thought God was going to punish me" for aborting the earlier pregnancy.

"I figured he gave me this beautiful little baby and in the next couple of years, he' was going to have him kidnapped. Then 1 thought, he's going to, wait until he's 6 and have him hit by a car. It took me a long time to work through this."

Father Michael W. DeForge, Burlington diocesan director of religious education, who has counseled women who have had abortions, said, "When a woman first seeks to be reconciled, there is a dawning realization on a natural level that a life has been lost."

For many wome'n, the immediate reaction to an abortion is relief that a problem pregnancy has been ended. But Father DeForge said he tries to help them realize that the church "affirms and elevates the natural law, which talks about the sacredness of life."

The priest said women who have had an abortiol) may hesitate about going to the sacrament of confession for the same reasons anyone hesitates to talk in an honest and penitent way about personal faults and failings.

But "the concrete nature of the sacramental encounter is the'begining of healing," he said. "The assurance of the grace of the sacrament, the absolution and forgiveness, can be the beginning of becoming whole again."

T.wo hospitals seek radiation center St. Anne's Hospital of Fall River and St. Luke's Hospital of New Bedford have filed a joint application with the Department of Public Health for Determination of Need for a new 6400-square-foot radiation treatment center in New Bedford.

At present, St. Anne's is one of only three southeastern Massachusetts facilities'licensed to provide radiation treatment. The application, if approved, would allow a fourth treatment center for the region.

According to Alan Knight, president of St. Anne's, "We hope to provide a radiation therapy facility in the New Bedford area that will be an extension of our own facility in Fall River. We are'concerned about the difficult commute many of" our New Bedford patients must undertake to obtain care. By joining with St. Luke's, we can give fine medical care in the most comfortable, cost-effective, and compassionate way possible."

John' Bihldorff, president and chief executive officer at St. Luke's, said a new radiation treatment center is "essential because it guarantees local access to this vital service by the 170,000 residents in the Greater New Bedford area.

Patients who need this service typ-

ically undergo up to 30 to 35 treatments within a six-week period. They should not have to be referred out of town for this important care."

Currently, 45 percent of the patients treated by St. Anne's radiation therapy program are from New Bedford. "For them, 20 miles is a long way to travel," said Dr. Mary Ann Rose, St. Anne's radiation therapy chief. "This facility will mean greater accessibility to the care people need."

The cost of building and equipping the new center is estimated at just under $2.5 million. There would, however, be an estimated savings of over $400,000 by using St. Anne's treatment planning services and by consolidating billing, administration, and other functions. The hospitals hope to get a decision on their application by 1990.

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Left to right, top to bottom: Bishop Cronin, Dorothy Curry and Victor Rebello await presente~ entrances; Suzanne Harrington and her escort father, Attorney Joseph Harrington, representing St. Lawrence parish, New Bedford, enjoy refreshments in the presentee hospitality area; Jan and Evelyn Domagala with presentee daughters, from left, Diane, Angela, Evelyn, Renee, Michelle and Marian; presentee Kathleen Clark of St. Mary's parish, South Dartmouth, with father / escort Paul Clark, and uncle 'Father James W. Clark, pastor of St. John the Evangelist parish, Pocasset; escorts converse before the ptesentation ceremony; presentees past and present: Ann Penta and daughter Jennifer Ann Trask meet Mary Nelson and daughter Kathleen Nelson.

Special needs religious education

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Joshua offers big results "I wanted to be of assistance," said Ms. Arruda, 36.

God is alive. And guess what?

The Fall Riverite, who has stuHe's right there in the room with died child care at Bristol Comyou! munity College, noted that she has We were taught that as young- a two-year-old goddaughter in Bossters. Our teachers were patient as ton who is a Down's'Syndrome' we struggled to comprehend. victim.

Special needs students require "My religion is the most imporan extra helping of patience when tant thing in my life," says the it comes to religious or any other coordinator, a telemarketer who type of education. also substitutes for other religion And at Fall River's St. Mary of teachers and is a program secrethe Assumption Cathedral parish, tary. "Helping here, I find myself that's what they get. doing better in every way."

Since October, the parish has Joshua currently has six young been conducting the Joshua pro- participants. Each workS with his gram for children with special or her own teachers' aide, a Conneeds. firmation II student volunteer who Parochial vicar Father Richard helps in the program.

G. Andrade is overall director of The program goal, Father Anthe cathedral's religious education drade said, is "to provide religious program and parishioner Lynette education. Period.

Arruda coordinates the Joshua "Special needs does not mean project, sessions of which are held retarded," lie explained. "Special Wednesdays in St. Mary's school needs is a broad, broad, broad building. term."

Father Andrade said that at his Father Andrade and Ms. Arruda, previous assignment, St. ~nthony's, with parent and teacher input, will parish, East Falmouth, he had dis-' annually review Joshua students' cussed special needs religion propr!>gress and decide who should grams with Patricia Mello, a reli- stay in the program. gious education coordinator and The "abilities and liabilities" of special needs professional.

Joshua students, says Father AnAt the cathedral he saw a need drade, "prevent them from learnand the facilities to meet it. ing in the more traditional sense."

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Fri., Jan. 20,1989

Letters Welcome

Some students, for example, work below their grade level or cannot be graded since aspects of their performance are not in tune with traditional classroom expec, tations. Ms. Arruda said one youngster cannot read at all and must work with pictures.

At a recent half-hour Joshua lesson themed "God Knows Me and "Loves Me" students began with the Sign of the Cross and reci,tation of the Lord's Prayer in unison.

The prayer was recited slowly, allowing time to ponder the mean"ing of each word. " "Who can tell me what we learned last week?" asked Ms. Arruda, her voice at the same time gentle and strong.

"God is like a rock," answered a little boy. The class then' discussed God's strength and how he is a good friend.

"We're gonna talk about how God knows us," Father Andrade told the class. He made himself comfortable on the floor and provided narration for a mostly-pictures filmstrip. " Students then accompanied their aides to tables for personalized work.

"It makes me feel good that he's , going to learn," said aide Lori Levesque, 14, of her 9-year-old charge.

Lori and other aides meet Tuesdays to review upcoming lessons and plan how they're going to work with their parti'cular student.

"I just wanted to help out,:' said Danny Silvia, also 14. "They needed some people and I figured I'd do what I can."

The 7-year-old assigned to aide Missy Luz told The Anchor he learned "that God's not bad.

"Coloring is fun," he added with a smile. "I like to do puzzles and watch a movie."

Father Andrade surveyed the scene. "I think it's a possibility for any parish," he said.

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Fri., Jan. 20,1989

"Third Age" is c~allenge for older Catholics

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Emphasis on its ministry to the young may have led the Church to take older Catholics for granted -until now. "For the first time in history," says Msgr. Charles J. Fahey, director of the Third Age Center at Fordham University, "many people are surviving far into old age, often remaining active and healthy long after responsibilities such as child-rearing and breadwinning have been fulfilled. " This period is often called the Third .'

Age. Msgr. Fahey refle<;ts on ministry to older persons - the greatest challenge facing the Church today - in "The Third Age: New Challenges for Older Catholics," by Claudia McDonnell, the cover story in the January issue ofSt. Anthony Messenger magazine. The Church faces the twin tasks of ministering to the needs of older Catholics and of tapping their talents and experience in the service of the Christian commmunity, says Fahey..

"The common perception is that older people have earned the right to withdraw," Msgr. Fahey says.

"We say that older people have a responsibility to participate in the life of the Church and in society."

Unlike the years of youth and middle adulthood - the First and Second Ages - the Third Age is "ill-defined in terms of roles and status." Once child-rearing and career responsibilities are complete, older adults face the "temptation to relinquish control, stop making choices and merely let life happen," Msgr. Fahey says.

"The person in the Third Age has to say, 'I'm not going to let life happen; I can go forward,''' Msgr.

Fahey believes. It is an opportune time to start asking.serious ques-

tions. "Is my work worthwhile?

With the children on their own, is this house still appropriate to live in? AIll I learning anything? The Third Age should be marked by purposeful decisions," .stresses Msgr. Fahey.

Although the church's 'pa~to~al ministry to the elderly IS 10 ItS infancy, it has an importan~ role to play helping old~r. Cathol.lcs continue to grow spmtually, mtellectually and socially.

CLOCKWISE FROM top left: Raymond Guillette, Based on a study conducted Charles Augat, Father Quinn, Normand Prefontaine, Mary Doherwith the help of the Third Age ty, Ruth Gruhn and Sister Phoenix. (Motta photo) Center, the bishops ofNew York State, for example, issued a pastoral lettel' in which they recommended that the Church should: 1) foster respect for older persons and counteract 'the negative stereotypes of 'ageism'; 2) work toward better say, Charlie, I'm in need of such

By Joseph Motta understanding among persons of and such an item' and he's got it They work quietly. They minis- promptly." different age-groups; 3) develop active ministries through which ter. They make a difference.

Augat, a retired nuclear engiMadonna Manor, North Attleolder people may serve others; 4) neer, has volunteered for two years. boro, a Fall River diocesan home give priority to the spiritual develHe visits residents and helps out opment of older persons; 5) recog- for the aged and infirm, is blessed by the presence of a group of where needed. nize that family, friends and neighA member of Central Congresenior citizen volunteers. bors are the 'primary long-term gational Church, Attleboro Falls, "These people are dedicated," care system' for the elderly, and and on the board of directors of assist them by providing 'informa- says Ruth Gruhn, until recently the Attleboro Council of Churches, manor's activities director. the tion, education, respite services, Augat lost his first wife, Adeline, referral services-and psychological "They're here constantly." to cancer. He received much help, The group she speaks of includes support.'

Charles Augat, Raymond Guillette, he said, from individuals and a "There are nearly 20,000 par- Mary Doherty, Normand Prefon- Hospice program. ishes in the United States," Msgr. taine and Sister Yvonne Phoenix, "I decided to give something Fahey says. "If we could get each SUSC, who gathered recently to back," he said. one of them to do a little more, it share the whys of their commitGuillette, 81, a member of would be of enormous benefit." ment to the nursing center with Attleboro's Holy Ghost parish; According to McDonnell, Msgr. The Anchor. has for 16 years been a Manor Fahey also emphasizes the impor~ sacristan and eucharistic minister.

Miss Gruhn, now activities tance of reflection and planning at director at Catholic Memorial His wife, Gwendelyn, has been a higher administrative levels... be- Home, Fall River, said 78-year- facility resident for four years. cause "it's far more likely that old Augat is "my major promoter.

The retired printer lends a hand something will happen if diocesan three days per week. "I used to be "All I have to do," she said, "is structures are in place." here seven days a week but my doctor cut me down," he said.

Father Justin J. Quinn, Manor chaplain, said Guillette's experience as an acolyte is appreciated at the By h.ome's liturgies.

The priest said the volunteers' tips I've ever heard, however, were presence is of vast importance. given recently at the Minnesota BERNARD "We have quite a few residents Press Club. . who are alone," he said. The senior The tipster was Ray Ploetz, a helpers "pick them up, make their cattle-farmer from Delano, MN, CASSERLY day." about as far from any ocean as you Mass is said and the rosary can get. However, he retired only prayed every day at Madonna last year after serving as a security Manor. According to Miss Gruhn, consultant with the State DepartPloetz also had good tips for a Lutheran, that's "what ties so ment in 26 countries. keeping out of trouble in popular many people together" there.

"Never, never carry a package tourist sites: "When tliey come to a religious into an airport for a stranger," . LEARN enough of the local nursing home," she said, "there's Ploetz said, "no matter how dire language to know how to ask for an understanding," an emergency he or she pleads." help in an emergency. Wear clo"There are only 24 hours in a In airports, spend little time at thing that blends in locally. Wear day," Father Quinn remarked when the ticket counter, he said. It is the little or no jewelry.

Mary Doherty commented "I wish most dangerous spot in the termiI could do a lot more," CARRY a folded local newsnal. If you must wait, do it in a gate Mary, 74, belongs to St. Mary's paper under your arm. You will be area past security, the walk-through parish, North Attleboro. She lives recognized as an American, he metal detector point.

It's a good idea to carry photos said but troublemakers will avoid close to the Manor and walks you: believing you are a resident down for Mass six days a week. of your family, children and grandA volunteer for eight-and-onechildren in your wallet. "Borrow foreigner' or one who kn.ows the half years, she helps wheel patients authorities. someone else's if you have none of your own," said Ploetz. The fact A路VOID crowds and commo- to Mass and tends to their needs.

"I really enjoy, it," she says. "I that you have a family may even tions. In some countries peaceful demonstrations can quickly become love the residents. I lean towards save you from execution.

"Don't wear military rings," Plo- riots. Display alertness and secur- them. I always did," The volunteer says her faith etz added. "Don't carry cards that ity awareness; those with criminal helps her with the harder part& of tie you to military, political or law intent will seek easier target,s.

An attorney, author and lec- her job, for instance, her sense of enforcement groups. Even 'Kentucky Colonel' cards should be left turer, Ploetz has put his tips for loss when a friend at the Manor home." safe and comfortable travel on one dies.

"Faith gives you peace of mind," In Moslem areas, the army re- 4 x 9-inch card. If you send him a serve colonel and command col- stamped, pre-addressed No. 10 en- she says. lege instructor said: I. Be careful if velope, he might send it to you.

Ray Ploetz's address is Rural carrying religious materials. 2. Do not carry sexually explicit litera- Route 3, P.O. Box 408, Delano, ture. 3. Women should dress mod- MN 55328, Bon voyage and safe home! estly.

Travel 'in the 80s The ads and features in the travel sections look more appealing as the days get shorter and the winds of winter drive the last dead leaves against the fences.

Now, when prices are down and the summer vacationers have gone home, is the time for leisurely travel.

With more seniors having the money and good health to see the world, some travel agencies offer discounts to those able to leave on short notice or free to travel. in off-seasons.

But in the perilous 1980s, is it safe to go abroad? What about the thieves, terrorists and pickp.ockets?

These threats never disappear completely, the travel experts tell us, but there are steps you can take to keep them under control.

Except for some silver bracelets lifted from my wife's purse by street urchins at a church plaza in Acapulco, my wife and I have been lucky in our travels. I've suffered baggage delays and lost press credentials, but no major crises.

Most of us can deal with lost items, but we dread the unknown and the unexpected. Improved airline procedures have cut skyjacking and other terrorism, but each of us can do more by ourselves.

As a "dry-land sailor" who .has traveled most of the seven seas, I've been handed a lot of advice on how to keep out ofjail and trouble when traveling abroad. The best

Seniors'; work appreciated at North Attleboro home

"This is my way of giving," says Normand Prefontaine, 75, who leads rosary recitation and sings at Masses.

The senior, active at the Manor for seven years, h~s for 62 years been a choir member at his home parish, Sacred Heart, North Attleboro, and for 43 years sang and traveled with Les Gliis Chanteurs, a French Catholic glee club.

Volunteers participate in the Manor's monthly ecumenical service for residents and members of area churches.

Churches take turns'conducting services, said Miss Gruhn.

The sessions include a welcome from Father Quinn, time for the church of the day to tell about itself and a fellowship hour. . 74-year-old Sister Phoenix ("I'm 47 backwards!") has volunteered since December, 1986.

The retired teacher once taught at Sacred Heart School, North Attleboro, now part of St. Mary/ Sacred Heart Consolidated School.

She now resides at North Attleboro's St. Mary Convent.

"I do a little bit of everything," she says, when asked to explain her Manor ministry.

The sister sings and plays the organ at Masses, cares for altar linens and visits patients. Her four days a week at the Manor include two sleepover nights.

Sister Phoenix says she had never before worked with sick individuals, so her volunteering presents many challenges.

"I take. so much to heart, " she says, noting that the work "keeps me on my toes."

"They're always ready to help," resident Helen Cardinal says of the volunteers.

"I think they do wonderful work," adds friend Doris Levasseur, a resident 'who lectors at Manor Masses. "They put themselves out, really."

Vietnam. martyrs finally honored PARIS (N C) - More than two months after ceremonies in Rome, several Catholic parishes in Vietnam celebrated thanksgiving Masses for the canonization of 117 martyrs, said church sources in Paris.

Permission to celebrate the Masses was granted to Hanoi's Cardinal Joseph Marie Trinh Van Can, by the head of the government's Committee for Religious Affairs, . sources said,路 They said the authorization stipulated that celebrations were not to be held outside the compounds of churches, portraits or statues of the saints had to be small and that liturgical texts had to be taken from the ordinary of martyrs in the Roman Missal, except for readings from the Book of Maccabees. . There has been no indication as to why the communist government of Vietnam, which. strongly opposed the June 19 canonization in Rome before it took place, allowed the Masses.

Government authorities forbade Vietnam's bishops to attend the canonization ceremony on grounds that the canonizations would remind Vietnam of its' colonial past and serve as a forum for antigovernment protests by emigres.

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Vatican-U .8. tensions ~ase, says Archbisho.p May WASHINGTON (NC) - When top U.S. bishops hold a summit meeting with Pope John Paul II in March, the main focus'will not be problems between the U.S..bishops and the Vatican, said St. Louis Archbishop John L. May, president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Tensions have eased in the past two years, Archbishop May said, so the meeting will be a time to summarize last year's discussions in Rome, about the church in the United State·s.

Archbishop May said the pope has described the March 8-11 meeting as a summary of the bishops' 1988 "ad limina" visits, which are held ev.ery five years and give bishops an opportunity to report on the status of their dioceses.

The pope's 1987 U.S. visit and the 1988 "ad limina" meetings "brought us closer in many, many ways," Archbishop May told Na~ tional Catholic News Service Jan. 12.

"I think things have been more steady in the past year," the archbishop said in a telephone interview from St. Louis.

He said a finalized agenda would be released by the Vatican.

Vatican cash: better but reserves zilch WASHINGTON (NC) - The $45.3 million in 1985 and $57.9 Holy See is still showing huge million in 1986.

The personnel cost increases were .yearly deficits, but its just-issued 1987 financial report shows im- not as dramatic when figured in Italian lire, the currency used by provement in some areas.

The Vatican covered most of a the Vatican to pay the bulk of its $63.8 million deficit with a record salaries and fringe benefits. From 1985 to 1987 the value of the dollar $50.3 million in Catholic contributions to Peter's Pence, a discre- against lire dropped more than 30 percent, so the act)Jal increase in tionary fund for the pope.

But for the remaining $13.5 mil- lire during that time was barely lion it had to use up the last of more than 10 percent - from 76 reserves left over from Peter's Pence billion to 83.9 billion lire.

Communications operations contributions of earlier years.

Those reserves "have now been radio and publishing together completely exhausted," the report were the second-largest 'cost item with combined expenditures of says.

On the other hand, Vatican pub- nearly $22 million.

Administrative expenses were lishing and broadcasting activities, which account for about one-third $12 million, partially offset by fees' and other reimbursements which of the deficit, lost a little less brought in about $7.2 million. money in 1987 than in 1986.

The report noted that Vatican The new report, covering the efforts to maintain the "internaHoly See's income and expenses in 1987, was sent to the world's bish- tional nature" of the church's central administration include frequent ops in January. international communications and One of the most significant 1987 paying expenses of poorer bishops numbers was the $50.3 million colwhen they travel to Rome for Vatlected in a single year for Peter's Pence, a fund made up of volun-· ican meetings.

The Holy See's administrative tary contributions to the pope by Catholic people and institutions . costs in.1987 included nearly $1.8 around the world. . million fOf travel of diocesan bi".

In 1986 the Peter's Pence collec- shops and Vatican personnel, $1.7 ti'on brought in only $32 million'" million for mail and telecommunications, and $830,000 for printing Ten years ~arlier the figure was and publishing, the report said. less than $10 million. The largest The cost of utilities for the Holy contribution to Peter's Pence comes See rose from $2. f million in 1986 from the United States, where most to $2.6 million in 1987. ' Catholic parishes take up a special collection for the pope on the,last Vatican Radio, which broadcasts Sunday ofJune or the first Sunday locally and worldwide on several of July. different frequencies, is run by the The bottom-line figures of the Jesuits but funded by the Vatican. . 1987 financial statement - a deficit It cost $3.7 million to run in 1985, of $63.8 million - were released $3.9 million in 1986, and $4.8 milby the Vatican press office last lion in 1987.

October.

In lire the radio station's operatBlit the full report, permitting ing costs actually declined - from comparative analysis of specific 6.3 billion lire in 1985 to 5.6 billion budget areas over recent years, in 1987. The numbers did not was not available at that time. include personnel and administniThe 1987 report shows person- tive costs, however. They were nel costs were still the largest ex- included in the general personnel pense at $71.7 million, up from and administrative figures.

GOD'S ANCHOR HOlDS

olic leaders were concerned about growing Vatican intervention in the life of the church in the United States.

The meeting was suggested after the Vatican acted in the cases of Seattle Archbishop Raymond G. Hunthausen and of Father· Charles E. Curran, a theology professor at The Catholic University of America in Washington.

Last November Archbishop May asked the bishops to make suggestions for a meeting agenda.

In the interview Archbishop May declined to comment on the suggestions he received and forwarded to the Vatican, but he said the case of Archbishop Hunthausen was not mentioned in the suggestions.

The archbishop .also said that during their Novemb~r meeting in Washington, . members of the NCCB elected regional representatives to the summit meeting, but they won't be going.

The Vatican instead has invited the heads of the 33 U.S. metropolitan Sees - the chief dioceses of ecclesial provinces that include other dioceses. In the United States, 31 Latin-rite archdioceses and two Eastern-rite archdioceses are metropolitan Sees.

Rome magazine predicts U .8. tax hike

ROME (NC) - President-elect George Bush might be forced to In addition to operating expenses, the Vatican invested nearly reverse the Reagan economic course and raise taxes to provide $10 million in new radio equipneeded social services to the ment in two years: $6.5 million in nation's poor and help reduce the 1986 and $3.2 million in 1987.

The report said that when ad- U.S. budget deficit, said an article ministrative and personnel costs in an Italian Jesuit publication for Vatican Radio were added to closely linked to the Vatican.

Bush "has recognized that the its other costs, the total 1987 deficit American economy is atop a volfor the broadcasting operation was but it is not clear whether he cano, $17.8 million. also has recognized the fearful Operating costs for publishing human repercussions that the ecoactivities - consisting of the Vatinomic crisis already has had on can Polyglot Press, the Vatican society," said the article in La CivPublishing Office and L'Osservailta Cattolica, which also noted the tore Romano, a daily Italian-lan"exceptional" international importguage newspaper with several weekance of the U.S. presidency. ly editions in other languages It criticized the Reagan adminrose from $7.6 million in 1985 to istration for reducing social pro$11.7 in 1986 and $13.9 million in grams while refusing to increase 1987.

The 1987 report said that after taxes and cut defense spending. adding in administrative and per"This is a negligence which has sonnel costs, the Vatican Polyglot affected 32.5. million Americans Press had a net profit of $187,000, living in chronic poverty at or the Vatican Publishing Office had below subsistence levels," it said. a net profit of $117,000 and L'Os"If Bush wishes to help alleviate servatore Romano had a deficit of this poverty he probably will be nearly 5.4 million. driven to change ideas and invite the population to accept a tax The combined e:Jeficits of pubincrease," it added. lishing and broadcasting amounted '. Bl,lsh also needs to increase to $22.9 million, up slightly from spending ifhe is to keep his cam~ . the 1986 figure of $21.5 million. paign promises of improving edu':: The increase in dollar terms was cation, fighting drug use and produe entirely to the lower value of tecting the environment, it said. ',; the dollar in 1987, however., In The Reagan budget deficits have Italian currency, in which the actual. worsen¢d the U.S. economy by costs of those operations are figured, the deficit dropped from 29 billion lire in 1986 to 26.8 lire in 1987.

In 1986, to cover an overall deficit of $56.7 million, the Holy See used all $32 million that it collected in Peter's Pence that year plus $24.7 million which it still had in reserve from collections of'previous years. It said in its 1986 report that those reserves "are by now nearly·exhausted."

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When the summit meeting was fir~t suggested in I986,many Cath-

increasing the national debt, it said.

The Rome-based magazine's editorials and. major' articles are reviewed by Vatican officials prior to publication. The article was written by Father Giovani Rulli, an Italian Je's iJ it' who 'often' writes on international affairs.

During the election campaign, the deficit problem "was not seriously discussed" by Bush or his rival, Michael Dukakis, the article said. "But neither did the people ask them to do it."

The U.S. deficit exists because "Americans spend more than they earn, consume more than they produce," the article said.

It also criticized the general lack of substantive debate in the campaign.

"With a lack of ideas, the two let themselves be car~ied away by insults," it said..

The campaign drew widespread international attention because of "the exceptional importance the office of the president of the United States has for the entire Western world and now, after a renewal ofrelations with the Soviet Union, even for Eastern'Europe," it said.

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Wednesdays, church hall.

FAMIL Y LIFE CENTER, N. DARTMOUTH Engaged Encounter begins today.

Divorced and separated program meets Monday. Pastoral care to the sick education program Wednesday.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, TAUNTON Greater Taunton area widowed support group meeting 7:30 p.m.

Monday, church hall.

NEWMAN LECTURE, SMU Southeastern Massachusetts University Newman Lecture Series talk, "Partners in the Mystery of Redemption: A Pastoral Response," by Sister Madeleine Tacy, OP; noon Monday, Board of Governors room, Student Center; information: 999-8224.

CATHEDRAL CAMP, E. FREETOWN Our Lady of the Assumption parish, New Bedford, youth retreat, today through Sunday. Espirito Santo parish, Fall River, Confirmation I retreat 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomorrow.

LaSALETTE CENTER FOR CHRISTIAN LIVING, ATTLEBORO Monday morning reflection group, utilizing Sister Helen Cecilia Swift's "How Blest You Are" book, based on the Beatitudes, Jan. 23 through March 20; facilitator: Sister Patricia Cocozza; "Why. 0 Lord?" Lenten retreat directed by Father Giles Genest, MS. and Norene Dupre Feb. 10 to 12; information on both events: 222-8530.

O.L. MT. CARMEL, SEEKONK Dominican Sisters of the Presentation will ~peakabout.the,ir work at Masses this weekend. Choir begins second season with practice 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Youth ministry meeting Jan. 29 begins with 6:30 p.m.

Mass, chapel; team meeting 7 p.m.

Feb. 17, center.

ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST, POCASSET 55-and-over Family blood pressure checks II a.m. 'to noon Tuesdays; reservations must be made at parish center.

DCCW RETREAT Diocesan Council of Catholic Women Lenten retreat with retreat master Father Jose Souza March 3 through 5, Cathedral Camp, E. Fre~­ town; information: Jane Sellmayer, 673-5383, after 4 p.m.

BLESSED SACRAMENT, FR Senior choir rehearsal 7:30 p.m.

Thursdays.

CORPUS CHRISTI, SANDWICH The parish was thanked by the organizer of the annual Christmas toys project of the 102nd Security Police Flight of Otis Air Force Base for its generosity, which saw over 200 more children than planned benefit from the endeavor. Teen activity group meets for swimming noon tomorrow, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, Buzzards Bay. ST. MARY, SEEKONK Children's Masses 10 a.m. Sunday and 11:30 a.m. Feb. 12.

ST. JOSEPH, TAUNTON In recent days, Vincentians have shipped over 6000 pounds of clothing to needy persons in south Texas. Bible study with Sister Beth Mahoney, CSC, resumes 9:30 a.m, Jan. 31, parish hall; topic: The Psalms. Films of Catholic interest will be shown in the church hall 7 p.m. Jan. 27 through 29.

IMMACULAtE CONCEPTION, TAUNTON Canned pears will be collected at Masses Jan. 28 and 29 to benefit Taunton's Our Daily Bread soup kitchen.

WIDOWED SUPPORT, CAPE COD Meeting Sunday; information: Dorothyann Callahan, 428-7078, evenings.

K orc, N. ATTLEBORO . Council 330 Knights of Columbus will be present after Masses Sunday at.St. Mary's parish, North Attleboro, to answer questions and accept membership applications.

SS. PETER AND PAUL, FR By the close of 1988, rosary guild membe'rs made and shipped 30,000 rosaries since the group's inception six and one-half years ago. Financial management seminar with Christine Roessel7 p.m. Jan. 31; Father Coady Center; all parishioners welcome.

CYO basketball tournament 6: 15 p.m. tomorrow, YMCA.. '

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, THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall WIDOWED SUPPORT, FR Fall River area widowed support group meets 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday; LaSALETTE SHRINE, Sacred Heart parish center, Fall ATTLEBORO River; all welcome; information: SisHealing service led by Father ter Ruth Curry, SS.Cc., 999-6420.

Andre A. Patenaude, M.S., shrine CATHEDRAL, FR director, 2 p.m. Jan. 29, People's The parish congratulates its junChapel: all welcome. ior boys' basketball team, which has JOSEPH, FAIRHAVEN ST. won eight straight games.

Parish mission March II through ST. GEORGE, WESTPORT. 17 'begins with Father Richard Anointing of parish sick 2 p.m.

McNally, SS.CC.,speakingat March Feb. 19. A parish directory is being II and 12 Masses. Charismatic Mass prepared. with celebrant Father Rick LaBrecque 7 p.m. Feb. 10.

APOSTOLATE FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES Signed Masses and socials 2 p.m.

Sunday and 2 p.m. Feb. 19 at St. Vin'cent's Home, Fall River. Signed Mass 9:30 a.m. every Sunday, St. Over 35 Y,ears Ann Church, Raynham; all welcome.

Persons interested in taking sign of Satisfied Service language courses in the spring are Reg. Master Plumber 7023 asked to write to the apostolate, 243 JOSEPH RAPOSA, JR. Forest.Street, Fall River02721, with 432 JEFFERSON STREET name, address, phone and designaFall River 675-7496 tion as beginner, intermediate or advanced student.

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Three months of age. Her mom, although a teenage unwed mother, made the choice for life.

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IT'S JUST NOT EASY!

Sixtee,n years and twenty-two million dead babies later, America is still groping for the solution to "the abortipn problem." ,The solution is deceptively simple: Continue educating the American public; continue, working with our state and federal representatives to stop the taxpayer funding of anti~life organizations; and pass the Paramount Human Life Amendment which will restore the right to life of all God's children.

• But it won't happen unless we make it happen.

We must pray and work and give of our time and our money today, tomorrow and every day until we have stopped the babyslaughter once and for all.

You have a choice: You can join the American Life League today and work with others dedicated to the Life Principles, the Paramount Human Life Amendment and the total protection of ALLof God's children.

Or: You can turn the page and TRY to forget that this baby was lucky. Twenty-two million of her brothers and ,sisters were scraped, burned or sucked to shreds in a horribly brutal and painful death.

AMERICAN LIFE LEAGUE - PUTTING LIFE PRINCIPLES INTO A eTION !

Mrs. Judie Brown, President American life League, P.O. Box 1350, Stafford VA 22554 (703) 659-4171

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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River--"Ftr, Jan:'26,-l989

Bishop Connolly High School Keri Hanley and Jason Ryan, juniors at Bishop Connolly High School, Fall River, have been named the school's December Athletes of the Month.

The awards are made on the basis of coaches' nominations, which are reviewed by Connolly's athletic director and school administration. Athletic achievem~nt, leadership and general school citizenship are selection criteria.

the team, spurring a comeback against Falmouth with his 21 points.

The student, who was named most valuable player in the Silver Lake Christmas Tournament, where he clinched i7 rebounds and blocked nine shots, is also a goalie in Connolly's soccer program and its sailing team captain.

Ryan is also a choir member and participates in the Jesuit school's peer training and peer ministry programs.

Miss Hanley, a Swansea resident, is an honor student and a three year varsity basketball player.

With an IS-point average, she is currently the Lady Cougars' leading scorer. Her season high to date is 24 p6ints in a game against Bishop Stang..

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The school's Jesuit community has welcomed a new member, Mr. Thomas Murphy, a second-year Jesuit novice.

Mr. Murphy pteviously served with the pastoral care staff at The three-season athlete has also d'Youville Hospital, Cambridge, played varsity volleyball and softtutored ~pecial needs children in ball for three years. She has been Jamaica Plain and did parish work in Jamaica, West Indies.. named a Southeastern Massachusetts Conference All Star in both At Connolly he will teach U.S. sports. history and assist in campus' minis~' try programs.

Ryan is playing his secoild of Followi'ng the semester in Fall varsity basketball. He is credited River and the end of his novitiate,

by Connolly mentor Frank Night- Mr. Murphy will study philosophy ingale with playing beyond pre- in Chicago. His long-range plans season expectations in the center' as a Jesuit include work in educaposition and becoming the core of tion and spiritual direction.

Bishop Feehan the Christmas season, and also provided the family wit.h food and toys.

According to class' secretary Lisa-Anne Ferland, "Due.to such a tremendous outpouring of gifts and money, we were able to adopt a second family with two children."

M iss Ferland, class co-presidents Skip Tramontana and Jason Tausek and class mod~rator Sheila Haskins worked with students, faculty and parents to provide the holiday aid.

Student Elizabeth Coady spoke on the community she's experienced at Attleboro's Bishop Feehan High School at a recent Lions' Club youth speech contest.

The teen,. who represented the South Attleboro Lioness Club in the competiti9n, took third place for her tlllk;

•• • • Feehanjuniors raised $600 for a needy family of seven from Holy Ghost parish; Attleboro, during

St; Mary's School Dennis R. Poyant, principal of St. Mary's ,School, New Bedford, notes that Christmas break at the learning institution "stiuted off in a very joyous fashion."

Nursery school students .sang Christmas songs and kindergarten youngsters staged a Chri~tmas pageant at a school assembly, and, at an evening program 150 stu-' dents in grades one through eight performed in the parish's annu~1 .

Christmas pageant.

St. Mary's thanks its "terrific crew" of volunteers. Classro'om volunteers are' Everett Sowle, Edward'Madec, Ella Dutra and Pauline Rooney and office aides are Nancy Martin and Lucille Lagesse. "We are very grateful for their help," Poyant notes.

The school w'ould like to form an alumni group. Graduates are asked to share their high school, college and. career experiences.

By Charlie Martin

LOOK AWAY Well you called me up this morning Told me about the new love you've found Said I'm happy for you· I'm really happy for you Found someone else, I guess I won't be coming round I guess it's over baby It's really over baby And from what you said, I know that you've gotten over me It will never be the way it used to be So if it's got .tQ be this way Don't worry' baby, '1 can fake that it's OK. If you see me walking .by And the ~ears are in my eyes Look away, baby, look away If you meet me on the streets someday And I don't know what to say Look away, baby, look away Don't look at me I don't want you to see me this way.

When we .both agreed as lovers That 'we were better off as friends That's how it had to be Yes, that's how it had to be I tell you that I'm fine but sometimes I just pretend Wish you were holding me .

Wish you were still holding me I just never thought that I would be replaced so soon I wasn't prepared to hear these words from you I know, I wanted to be free . Yes, baby, that's how we wanted it to·be.

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'NINETEEN ALBUMS! Few The song's.story is one of sadreco'rding artists can match Chi~ ness and loneliness. A couple has cago's history for volume or lon- agreed to cease their romantic. gevity. Their latest. chart hit off involvement, .realizing that t~ey "Chicago XIX" is "Look Away." are "better off as friends."

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How can I make myselt'look prettier and be a nicer person so I like myself better? People t~1I me that in like myself better, others "Eddie'~' will like me better too. Do you Members of the. committee . JJelieve that? (Virginia) "Eddie Was Here," a fact-based include Sister, Ann Moore, CND, A. If you like yourself, you well play about a Rhode Island teen Fall River Diocesan Department may find it easier to be a more drug abuse. victim; will be pres- of Education superintendent of' generous, open and loving·p·erson.. ented at 7:30 ·p.m. l:hur~day at .

Fall'River's B.M.C. Durfee·High.' secondary schools, F~the(W~lham . And the more y'ou become that School auditorium.' . . Mulligan, SJ, ofFal) Rivet's B\shop 'kind of person, the more likely it is Con.nolly High Scho<,)l! a!"d Miss ·that'people will respond by liking The presentati'on, to be perlorm:.· 'Kathleen Burt, principal of the you. " ed by IMP-ACT, a .Rhode Island- same city's SS. Pete't:and Paul But all this probably will happen based improvisational musical' ,School. ., gradually rather than overnight. performance group, is sponsored AI\. interested individuals .are .: So where to begfn? by the Fall River Substance Abuse welcome to attend the show, which As a male, I hesitate to advise Prevention Committee. ····will include audience participatiop. you on how to "look prettier." : Instead Ihave cons~lted two fem-.· . inine sidekicks.

They both regar~ loud, gaudy makeup and dress as being in bad taste. They .prefer a low-key approach with soft, subtle colors.

If you set out to draw attention to yourself with a garish shade of lipstick, you may end up looking very foolish indeed. .

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Yet when one finds a new romantic interest, the other person is not ready for the shock of hearing the news. In the song's words, "I just never thought that I would be replaced so soon."

Even though the person in the song encounters emotional pain, both individuals are to be respected for their decision to separate. Too often, dating couples refuse to face their problems.

They let the euphoria of being in love repress nagging doubts or .questions.

A couple must have the courage to look honestly at problems.

This may show them that less involvement is what they need and that this ultimately will lead them to greater happiness, though probably with someone else.

Nonetheless, what the singer feels is sadness. And he thinks he must disguise this feeling. He doesn't want her to see his tears . and"thus asks that she "look away" if they by chance nieet.

Sadness is appropriate and understandable.in the circumstances. There is nothing to be 'embarrassed about when genuine . grief fills our hearts. , But it is important to take care of oneself while living with pain.

Usually'we need to turn to other 'friends or. family members to support us emotionally. Of special help are those people who can share our feelings of sadness without trying to "fix" them.

At times, we need to be sad 'and cry to get our feelings out. If we can be with someone else who is comfortable with such' emotions, thi~ person's support and care can bring healing and strength. . .

Tears are not a sign ()f weakness and can be part of the healIng process. ;- . " " .

Your comments always are welcome. ~ddress Charlie Martin, R.R. 3, Box 182, Rockport, Ind.

47635 the Letter' to the Colossians. That will give you a lot to work on in the area of personality development.

Might you, on your own, search for additional clues in the Bible?

And at Mass on Sunday, might you listen for helpful hints on behavior in the Scripture readings?

It isn't enough to read and hear these bits of "advice. You need to .think about how you can apply the advice to the nitty-gritty of life, the concrete situations of your daily existence.

Even more important, you need to bring this advice to life as you interact with. your. friends and enemies on a daily basis. . As'cautioned above, don't expect sudden, miraculous results. We humans grow slowly and sometimes it takes awhile to becom-e a . thoroughly loving, ~enerous and open person.. '.

Everybody J . know, especially myself, alwayssee'ms to have room for further improvement.

Your questions. are welcome always. Please send them to Tom Lennon, 1311 Mass•. Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005.

Too much eye makeup also can be disastrous.

Both of my advisers also put ,great stress on personal cleanliness.

And. one mentioned that 'some hairdressers now use computers to show you what hairstyle will best enhance the shape of your face.

Your next problem is a bit more complex: How to·become a "nicer person.!" '.'.

Although,this is really the work of a lifetime, it's never too soon to start and never too early to achieve some results.

If I were a teacher of religion, I'd ·Iiven up t.he class with a two-week project in which students' searched ".

N ot'hing?slnsignificant the Old and New Testaments for clues to being a nicer, more'attrac~ ."Just "as there ifre n'o little tive person. people or 'linimportan,t lives, There is, for ,example, the ,sim- there )'s no' 'ins'ig'nificant ple, yet complex, commandment, "Love one another" (John 13:34). work."--,- Elena Bonner· And there is the prophet Tobit's advice, "Do to no one what you yourself dislike" (4: 15).

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PARTICIPANTS in ttte pro-life observance include, front row from left, residents Evelyn Oliveira, Jane Sparrow and Isabel Gomes; second row: Rose Cunha, LPN; Linda Rodrigues, RN; EvelynGeary Paquette, MCFL New Bedford area chairperson; Father Jusseaume; third row: Jean-Claude Paquette; MCFL New Bedf.ord area treasurer Joseph Begnocha; Our Lady's Haven administrator Martha Daneault.

Diocesan home plans pro-life weekend

Symbols following film reviews indicate both general and Catholic Films Office ratings. which do not always coincide.

General ratings: G-suitable for general viewing; PG-I3-parent.al guidance strongly suggested for children under 13; PG-parental guidance suggested; R-restricted. unsuitable for children or young teens.

Catholic ratings: AI-approved for children and adults; A2-approved for adults and adolescents; A3approved for adults only; A4-separate classification (given films not .morally offensive which. however. require some analysis and explanation); O-morally offensive.

Catholic ratings for television movies are those of the movie house versions of the films.

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Growing up in Brooklyn, I had no idea that God would call me one day to work among Navajo Indians in faraway New Mexico.

And, when I began: my ministry on the Eastern Navajo Reservation, I never, e~er expected to find the kind

of poverty I once thought existed only in 'Third World" countries.

Lay missioners who come to serve with us almost always ask , "Father, is this America?"

I'm sure you would, too, if you would have been with me the day I visited Ella and her family. Iwas appalled at what I found, even though I knew in my heart what to expect. , The ceiling is plastiC: trash, bags held in place with carpet tape. , The walls are of scrap plywood. Outside,sectionsofthe wall have been tarpapered which gives a kind of patchwork look to the makeshift dwelling. Step inside and you're standing on bare earth, har(l-packed and swept clean.

Right away you notice the i'winaows" are simply strips ofopaque plastic which offer little protedi()n against the 'h<)\vlingwintet wi~d~, Last winter, an mfant died within these walls.

Ella and;her children don't '1ive" here. They try to Survive'here.

And they wipe the tears from their eyes when they speak of the baby who didn't.

Indian Mission See~s Help

As Roxie turned to me, I tum to you today. I plead for your prayers. And I also plead for your help for the buildingmateriats. For mate- • rials for a real roof...a real floor...real windows.

This is a need that is so real I couldn't turn my back on it.

Can yoti? I'm prayingElla's 'fanilly will be able to count on you. Will you 'help today with this emergency need?

In our hearts we have been celebrating the birth of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

It is in His name that our Mission reaches out with love to our Native American neighbors on the Eastern Navajo ReservatiOn. It is in His name that I ask for, your generous gift today to help us build a hogan for Ella and her family and to share in all the good works of St. Bonaventure Indian Missions and School.

When you write, send me your Special Intentions so I can pray for you, too.

In the Love of Jesus,

Prayers, Donations Urgently Needed Ella is a Navajo Indian. Her crude shelter measures about 16x16, hardly the size of an average garage.

It is furnished with a sagging double-bed, ,a crude kitchen 't.able and chairs and a

dilapidatedover-stuffed chair that serves as a bed for one child. In the center of the single "room" is a rusting wood stove.

Roxie's heart has gone out to Ella and her three survivingchildren. Roxieisour Volunteer Outreach Director.

Several weeks ago, I had begun noticing that Roxie, whose personality usually bubbles, was withdrawn into herself. I hoped there was nothing wrong with any of her family back home. So, I finally decided to ask 'her what was troubling her and see if there was anything I coUld do to help.

"It's Ella,". Roxie blurted out, aImost before lhad fmish~d my question to her. I must have looked puzzled because she hurried on, "Father, you should see her place for yourself. I've been trying for months to help her get in touch with agencies I hoFe4'would be able to re,for decent sPond to' her housiitg. She's been to Wm": dow R6ck(the capitatof the .

Navajo Nation about60miles from here). She was shifted from office to office, left wai!ing for hours. But all we've

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gottenforhereffortsisahomesite lease. She has no money.

She has nothing."

Roxie's words kept tumblingout. "1 know the Mission doesn't have funds to build Ella a hogan (a traditional Navajo dwelling), so Ihaven't wanted to worry you about her. But, she's desperatelym needandI'mdesperatelyooncerned for the family. You know'how cold it's already gettingat night. Willyoucome with me to see for yourself?"

Then I saW for myself what I just described to you. I'm Father Dou'g McNeill and for the past 15 years my work has been here on the Eastern Navajo Reservation among the poorest of our Nation's poor.

When Roxiearrived with me in tow, Ella looked hopeful. I reminded myself I had only corrie to look...but my heart would not let me leave without making a commitment to FJla that her family would have a safe shelter just as soon as possible.

I don'f know who looked more joyous - Ella or Roxie.

They hugged each other, laughing and crying at the same time. The little ones joined in and I stepped outside to see if any of the materials in the shanty could be salvaged for the building' of a hogan. I waSn'tmuchencouraged.

In the days that have passed since Ivisited Ella's shack with Roxie, I have prayed for a way tofulfillthepromiselmadeto Ella. Too well, I know the truth of Roxie's statement that the Mission doesn't have

funds on hand to build Ella a new hogan.

We operate on a shoestring (and a lot of faith!) and, too often, when I check our bank b~ailce,lfindwe are whatmy mother would call "Flat Broke!"

Yet, today, I still know I coUldn't have walked away from Ella's plight and slept a Wink Without making a eommitment to help. My heart made a cOmmitment I believe yoW' heart would also have made if you had been t~ere With me. I'm writing this letter today appealing to you to help with this desperate need...to reach out with compassion for the plight of this American Indian family.

The day of our visit, when she finally got hold of herself, Ella began to quiz Roxie about what kind of a new hogan we would build for her family. ~ t:'\J ''Will it have a real roof?" she asked. Roxie looked at me. ~;t:r~ I nodded. Yes. Fathpr DoHg M~U 'Will it have a real floor?" P.5.1f Icould take you in tow, Ella asked. Roxielookedatme as Roxie did me, I knowyou and, again, I nodded, Yes. would want to do whatever Ella hugged herSelf. She you could to make sure Ella took a deep breath before she and her children have a new dared to ask, ''Will it have real hogan this winter. I can't...so Windows?"

I ask you to see Ell'a and her 'This time, Roxie didn't look ramshackledwelling through at me. She nodded, Yes! my eyes. See the plastic at the Turning away from Ella, windows. See the plastic trash Roxie spoke to me in hushed bags taped together to form the ceiling. Feel her grief for tones that only I could hear.

Shealmost begged, ''Father, the infant who died last wincould we also get Ella a safe ter within those flimsy walls. new stove to go in her new P.P.S. The sight of Ella's surhogan?" What could1 do, but viVing baby still haunts me.

See her for yourself in this nod, Yes! Ahogan for Ella's family to picture and let your heart go protect them from the life- outtoherasRoxie'shas...and as mine has. threatening cold ofwirlter!

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Father-Doug McNeill - % Project 'Winter Emergency St. Bonaventure Indian Missions and .school Eastern Navajo ·Reservation Thoreau, New Mexico 873~ - 0610

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